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Elvisha Dhamala
@elvisha.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at Northwell
Previously McGill, Cornell, Yale
Brain-Based Predictive Modeling Lab: bpmlab.org

Interested in sex, gender, brain, behavior, mental health, neurodevelopment, and machine learning

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Elvisha Dhamala @elvisha.bsky.social · Aug 18
"At a time when unsubstantiated opinions are often presented as facts, data are our most powerful tool to separate truth from misinformation. But data are now under attack."

Check out my essay for @thetransmitter.bsky.social on what this means for research.
Reposted by Elvisha Dhamala
drugmonkey.bsky.social
“NIH fully expects recipients to comply with the new terms and conditions, unless otherwise stated in the Notice of Award, or unless NIH has been enjoined by court order from imposing or enforcing such terms while that court order is in effect. “

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-26-007: Reminder of Compliance Requirements for NIH Extramural Recipients Related to Renegotiated Aims, Objectives, Titles, and Abstracts
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Reminder of Compliance Requirements for NIH Extramural Recipients Related to Renegotiated Aims, Objectives, Titles, and...
grants.nih.gov
November 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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bstevensonlab.bsky.social
NIH study section that was originally scheduled for this coming Tuesday is back on track, will meet on Tuesday. No delay.
Other study sections are being rescheduled for early 2026.
the white rabbit from alice in wonderland is crying while holding a clock and saying whew ! right on schedule !
Alt: the white rabbit from alice in wonderland is crying while holding a clock and saying whew ! right on schedule !
media.tenor.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
elvisha.bsky.social
this is a request to all academics who sit on award committees:

please please please stop giving out glass plaques (or if you absolutely must, please provide a paper certificate too)
November 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Reposted by Elvisha Dhamala
jeremymberg.bsky.social
I posted yesterday about the shift to triaging 70% of NIH applications rather than 50%.

This is apparently just a temporary step to catch up for all of the study section meetings cancelled due to the government shutdown.

I hope NIH will collect some data to track the impacts of this change.
a woman wearing a beanie says this is a temporary fix netflix
ALT: a woman wearing a beanie says this is a temporary fix netflix
media.tenor.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
elvisha.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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ariellekeller.bsky.social
Happy New Preprint Friday!* Thrilled to share new results in collab with Sarah Lichenstein & @yiplab.bsky.social showing our brain's functional connections reflect the environments we grow up in!
tinyurl.com/exposomeConnectivity

#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #DevPsy #cognition
*can this be a thing??
November 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Reposted by Elvisha Dhamala
drrabbithole.bsky.social
While the government was shut down, 379 NIH study section meetings (containing 24,380 grant applications) were postponed. NIH is committed to getting these reviewed, but please be patient and understanding with staff, as this is a complex and heavy lift.
November 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Reposted by Elvisha Dhamala
sneuroble.bsky.social
It’s officially out! Check out the manuscript for more on the effect size web app, led by the truly indefatigable @halleeshearer.bsky.social and featuring so many contributions from this team, esp MINDS Lab via @dscheinost.bsky.social
halleeshearer.bsky.social Hallee Shearer @halleeshearer.bsky.social · 10d
Excited to share our manuscript about BrainEffeX, a tool for exploring fMRI effect sizes. Includes why we made it, how to use it + contribute, and how we made it.

@sneuroble.bsky.social @psychonetrics.bsky.social
@alexkfischbach.bsky.social
@nichols.bsky.social
@dscheinost.bsky.social & MINDS Lab
November 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social
Truly heroic work by the stellar @cieslakmatt.bsky.social + the HBCD dMRI working group team. Refactored QSIPrep + QSIRecon is the result of nearly 3y of concerted development + testing. It will be a total workhorse for HBCD -- and almost any other dMRI scan. Check it out for your data!!!
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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valeriejsydnor.bsky.social
Happy to share our review "Investigating hierarchical critical periods in human neurodevelopment” in @npp-journal.bsky.social! We examine neurobiological, environmental & behavioral evidence for human critical periods in sensory and association cortex +discuss new research directions rdcu.be/eMkVU 🧵
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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jensfoell.de
Incidentally, all three cities are beautiful, located in the very south of Germany.

If you’re thinking of relocating at all, consider coming to Germany for your postdoc
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11d
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
elvisha.bsky.social
10/10 would work in this lab again
November 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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imagingneurosci.bsky.social
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Alice Mukora, M. Mallar Chakravarty, et al:

Investigating the impact of sex and reproductive aging on latent signatures of modifiable dementia risk factors

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
November 9, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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alexfornito.bsky.social
🔥🔥Great news!🔥🔥

The registration deadline for the Noosa Brain Workshop is extended to Nov 17.

Register by this date to guarantee accomodation:

monash.edu/turner-insti...
November 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Reposted by Elvisha Dhamala
biologicalpsych.bsky.social
What are some questions you'd like to ask our editors? ❓ 📝 ✨ 🧪 💡
November 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
elvisha.bsky.social
Anyone have recent experience applying for an O1?
Would love to hear about what the process was like!
November 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Reposted by Elvisha Dhamala
bttyeo.bsky.social
Preprint is now published: doi.org/10.1002/hbm....

Special thanks to co-authors @twktan.bsky.social @kimnganngt.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
elvisha.bsky.social
If I got a grant rejection today, but I'm submitting an application for a different one tomorrow, do they just cancel each other out?
November 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
elvisha.bsky.social
My therapist told me to find a new hobby so here we are…
Procreate app on iPad, with drawings of icons of different people
October 31, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Reposted by Elvisha Dhamala
tervoclemmensb.bsky.social
Proud to have helped shape this policy. DCN will now evaluate studies with a new section: "Design Considerations", rather than simplified sample size criteria.

This will allow for precision neuroimaging studies and require more nuanced discussion of reliability, effect sizes and power.
Advances on design considerations in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
www.sciencedirect.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:01 PM
elvisha.bsky.social
Living in 2025 is quite an adventure because my chest hurts and I don’t know if it’s because of COVID, anxiety, or the leg wrap & chest solidcore class I did today. 🤷🏽‍♀️
October 30, 2025 at 4:26 AM
elvisha.bsky.social
broke my keychain this morning and I feel like the world is trying to send me a message 🙃
Keychain that says “fuck the patriarchy”
October 22, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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jbenmenachem.com
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs

- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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drugmonkey.bsky.social
Btw for those interested in figuring out how many NIH study sections are being cancelled, the Federal Register announcements are useful

www.federalregister.gov/documents/se...
Document Search Results for '"national institutes of health" and "study section"'
Search, browse and learn about the Federal Register. Federal Register 2.0 is the unofficial daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as e...
www.federalregister.gov
October 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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neurograce.bsky.social
Are you looking to do independent research related to machine learning and/or data science? Want to get some teaching experience too? Apply to be a faculty fellow at the Center for Data Science at New York University! Positions are for two years. apply.interfolio.com/174686
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October 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM